3)To pass The Test, intelligent life forms inhabiting any planet will be required to:

a) first learn to live and work together within, and in accord with, their planet's ecosystem, and to substantially coexist with all the other species on that planet, while overcoming any toxins of power that are contrary to social harmony;

b) develop technology that produces space vehicles able to substantially meet or exceed the speed of light;

c) find another solar system with a habitable planet which contains a central star still having enough time left in its stellar life cycle for them to colonize a habitable planet in that solar system (since it is unknown whether the toxins of power are to be found on all planets, as they are found on Earth, that possibility should be taken into consideration when selecting any new planet or moon as a home world); Note: since white dwarfs and red dwarfs (main sequence) are the most stable and most abundant stars, they should be favored over Sun-like stars. If biotic evolution in a solar system takes place on a dwarf star, the cosmic nomadic behavior may not be a factor of "The Test" (see On the Origin of the Genes of Viruses - 8 at "III. The Consequences of Premature Biotic Evolution");

d) colonize that habitable planet, and then improve ecocosmological skills as needed;

e) then repeat the entire process ad infinitum;

f) or, experience a morph into another "species" free from that type of solar/planetary cosmic dependence.

4)The seeds of intelligence (genetic and memetic clues) required to successfully perform The Test are distributed into all species, races, religions, sciences, creeds, and genders. Thus, all individuals should be respected as carriers of some quanta of the seed of intelligence required to pass The Test, lest a fundamental quantum of necessary intelligence be lost.

These Four Tenets define the basics of Ecocosmology, and are designed to provide a platform from which more details can be expanded upon in the days, weeks, months, and years before us.

Wow. This web site is one of the most influential collections of information that I have ever come across. My whole life I have been looking for a goal to work towards. While I have found pieces of this puzzle in sociology, pychology and other disiplines; never have I encountered such a connection between them all and a clear view of the purpose of my interest in all of them until now. Thank you very much for sharing this as you have.

I agree that we should pursue harmony with each other and with the ecosystem of which we are a part. However, I'm confused about why there is a need for our species to colonize other planets. Does it really matter that we - like everything else - will eventually be extinguished? Is it necessarily negative? I'm not afraid to die and I certainly don't feel the universe has anything to lose if the human species died out. Merely part of the life-death cycle, right?

I'm with it so far, but how does 'ecocosmology' differ from transhumanism, singularitarianism, order of cosmic engineers, or any of the other groups inspired by similar visions of the future? Do we need yet another 'ism' or 'ology' discussing the same themes?

"I'm with it so far, but how does 'ecocosmology' differ from transhumanism, singularitarianism, order of cosmic engineers, or any of the other groups inspired by similar visions of the future? Do we need yet another 'ism' or 'ology' discussing the same themes?"

How does ecocosmology differ? There is no intention to differ or to not differ. So long as tenet one is a valid scientific premise, and it is, then the other tenets follow the logic to a logical conclusion.

You list a mixed bag of "isms" for ecocosmology to be compared to. There is no intention to compare or to not compare.

It has long been known that Gaia (the spirit name for the living being of our Earth) has been unhappy with us as a people.

It was foretold that great species of animals would leave the Earth in preparation for the coming polar shift (not like the world is going to suddenly tip on its side but rather going into another phase as our galaxy moves positions).

We are already seeing great numbers of humans leaving (dying), but must remember that we are energy beings. I believe that before we can begin to take care of our planet, we must learn the lessons in the physical, ascend to the energy, and then perhaps be given another chance at the physical (reincarnation).

It is sad that we are coming to learn these lessons at such a late time in our Earth's life span. I can only hope that our enlightenment may make the coming events to be post-poned and give us more time to prepare, and make peace with Gaia and each other.

I don't know the mysterious names you mention, but I too see the earth as part organism in the sense that a cyborg is part organism, or in the sense that humans are cyborgs.

Cyborgs in the popular theatre are part biotic and part non-biotic. We don't think of ourselves that way, but we are composed at the lowest level of atoms and molecules that are not biotic, they are machine.

The energy level you mention is a nice way to fuse it all together like Einstein did, e=mc\2, meaning we can represent everything as energy if we want to see it that way.

As you see the tenets of ecocosmology do not bother with having enemies, only complying with the obvious nature of the cosmos from the perspective of the nature of stars as depicted by astronomers and cosmologists.

Good luck to all of us, including you folks, in our difficult journey.

The outward migration of the human race or our descendants is a popular notion in sci-fi writings. All good sci-fi has a basis in reality, otherwise it wouldn't be plausible. But, I'm not sure our species is capable of embracing a purpose that goes so far into the future as you propose. Seems we have enough trouble making plans for a year at a time. I'm not saying we shouldn't look that far ahead. I doubt that we can do so. History shows we are very short-sighted.

The tenets are nothing more than a road map into the cosmos, a road we must take.

Seems like we are lost, not because of the map, but because we refuse to use the map.

Note that in the map (4 tenets) there is a provision for "religious" or "mystical" lanes on the road (tenet 3(f)), and hopefully one explanation of that tenet will bring people together rather than apart.

Why does Tenet 1 suggest 'at an unknown time' - Don't stars have lifespans of different lengths? Don't we have a general idea of how much time we have? The tenet appears to suggest that we have no idea when stars die.

If we were to suddenly come to our cosmic senses and realize the actual cosmos we live in, then get globally serious about taking care of this home world together, while we build the tecnology to find another world together, there is a possibility we can do it.

In our current configuration where we are aligned against one another, surely destroying our home world's ability to sustain us, while not working on cosmic technology, we are scheduled to become extinct.

There are scientists who say 3(f) is possible by humans evolving into robots (see posts); there are religionists who say a morph takes place (going to heaven, becoming immortal, etc); and others say we just die and that is it.

The path for the entire human species, from a government standpoint, is to proceed on those things that can be agreed to by a consensus.

Environmental protection is at the same time species protection, so that should be agreeable by consensus.

Improved technology, such as renewable energy, should likewise fit the bill.

But personal beliefs concerning 3(f), at the personal level is very different.

That is where freedom of religion and the like comes into play, so it is each to her or his own.

The wise thing for us to do at this juncture of human history is to learn to live together here on earth in harmony with the earth and each other.

That would be a major accomplishment that would get the entire human species ready for the future.